Lubricating device.



0. D. H. BENTLEY.

LUBRIGATING DEVICE.

APPLIGATIONYFILED MAY 21, 1910.

Patented Jn. 20, 1914.

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LUBRIGATING DEVICE.

APPLIOATIQNHLED MAY 21, 1910 2 SHEETS-SHEET 2.

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OLIVER n. H. BENTLEY, or BROOKLYN, NEW'Y'ORK, AssiGNon To B. r. sTUriTnviiNr COMPANY, or BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, A CORPORATION on' MASSACHUSETTS.

LUBRICATING DEVICE.

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Speoication of Letters Patent,

Patented dana 20, igii.

Application filed May 21, 1910. Serial No. 562,653.

vice which is Simple in construction andl easy to manufacture. The lubrication of the bearing is effected by means of a rapidly iowing stream of oil delivered to the bearing. In the preferred embodiment of the invention, the stream of oil is given a high veiocity by means of a carrier from which the oil is deflected and led along a smooth inwardly directed, curved path to the bearing where it is delivered to the surfaces to be lubricated. The carrier is preferably an oil ring having a channeled inner periphery in which oil taken from an oil reservoir below the shaft is given a high velocity, from which the Oil is scooped and is delivered between thev shaft and bearing in a direction Asubstantially tangential to the shaft.

in the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this application and in which similar reference numerals indicate corresponding parts inthe several views: Figure 1 is an axial section, illustrating one embodiment of my invention applied to both the way and end bearings of a shaft; Fig. 2 is a. section on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1, and Fi 3 is a section on the line 3 3 of Fig. 1. eferring to the drawings, the way and end bearings are sho-wn provided with dustproof casingsl andv 2, respectively; Similar reference numerals being applied to the corresponding elements in the two casings.

The journal bearing is shown comprising i any usual box 3 provided with a bushing 5,

and having a zonelshaped annulus 4; a facing member 6 is secured to Supports 7 on casing webs 8, and provided with an recess for seating the annulus 4 to rockingly support the bearing. A pin 9 extends from the support 7 through the member 6, and engages a somewhat enlarged recess 10 in the annulus 4; thereby locking the journal bearing against rotation, while permitting free rocking thereof to accommodate slight Shiit- .ing of the shaft axis and compensate for irregular wear.

Slots 11 are provided through they upper` portion of the journal bearing for receiving oi'ling rings 12; said rings being provided with channeled inner peripheries 14 supported freely on the shaft, and depending `eccentrically therefrom into an oil reservoir 13 in the casing. y Deflectors 15 extend from the bearing substantially tangentially to the walls 16 of re`l cesses or cavities 20 formed between the bearing and shaft; said deflectors being curved to project'into the ring channels 14 in a direction rearwardly to the rotation of the. shaft.

As illustrated in Fig. 2, the free ends o the deectors 15 extend. toward, but do not touch the bottoms of the ring channels 14,

so that, while the deflectors deflect practically the entire body of oil carried in tbe ring channels, they do not frictionally engage the bottoms of the ring channels and prevent the rings 12 from freely rotating. The recesses or cavities 20 between the bear ing and the shaft are formed by peripheral grooves cut in the inside of the bushings 5 below the slots 11. The mouths of these recesses open upwardly behind the deiectors 15 and the closed lower ends of the recesses merge with the bearing surfaces of the bushings 5.

As shown especially in Fig. 2, the curved .deflectors 15 coperate with the ring channels 14 and walls 16 to provide a continuous and approximately spiral path, along which a stream of oil is conducted at high velocity from the reservoir 13, and such rapidly-{iowing stream deiiected in its integrity tangentially between the shaft and bearing; thereby providing an improved construction in which the oil is positively deflected to cause its eiiicient impingement between the shaft and bearing inv an integral unbroken stream of high velocity, thereby insuring a highly advantageous condition of oil supply and pressure under all practical operations.

When the rapidly flowing stream of oil scooped from the ring channel 14 by the delector 15 enters the tapering recess or cavity Q0 and impinges between the shaft and bearing, its velocity is checkedand the momentum oi m's cava. of the oil forces it with a and furnishes the oil film for lubrication.

. the bearing surfaces.

,the open mouth of the recess or cavity 2O is greater than the amount of oil which can flow from the recess or cavity between The excess of oil which does not enter the bearing escapes fion veither side of the deflector 15 and drips into the reservoir 13. This eXcess oil, however, does' useful work because when its velocity is vchanged by impingement into the open mouth of the confined recess or cavityV 20 thepressure caused by its change in velocity assists in forcing into the bearing the oil which enters between the bearing surfaces The ring 12, the deector 15 and the recess 2,9 act like an "oil pump to force a copious supply of oil between the rshaft and the bushingv 5 to the very bottom ofthe bearing and vtherefore provide a'forced feed lubrication 'for the bearing. The present invention d oes away with the oil pump and piping conriections hitherto incident to systems of forcedlubrication, and obtains the advanta e of forced-lubrication for the bearing with an exceedingly lsimple arrangement of parts. ln this connection it is to be noted that the tapering recess 20 extends from the deector 15 around the periphery of the shaft in the- Consedireetion of rotation of the shaft.

quently, the rapidly rotating shaft exerts a frictional drag upon the moving oil stream inthe recess 20 and assiststhe flow of oil into the bearing.

In the operation of my invention, .the freely-supported oiling rings 12 will be rotated merely by the frictional engagement of. their channeled inner peripheries with the rotating shaft. This action of the oiling ringsk coperaties with the spiral path provided for the oil stream and the deflectors, to insure an eiiiciently uniform and even operation under all practical conditions.

l have illustrated and described preferred and satisfactory constructions, but changes could'be made within the spirit and scope of my invention.

Having'thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

` 1. ln a forced-lubricating shaft bearing,

the combination of `a journal bearing pro-A vided with an inner grooveextending tan-v ntially to the shaft, an' oil reservoir,n

ring loosely supported on the shaft and prem vided with a channeled innerperiphery en# tendingwithin said reservoir, and a curved detlector extending substantially tangentially to the walls of such bearing groove and ring channel and cooperating with such `walls to provide a continuous substantially spiral path for the oil from said reservoir to the shaft.

2. In a forced-lubricating shaft bearing, the combination of a journal bearing provided with an inner groove extending tangentially to the shaft, an oil reservoir, a ring loosely mounted on the shaft and provided with a channeled inner periphery extending within said reservoir, and a curved blade secured to said journal bearing extending into the ring channel in a direction opposite to the direction of rotation of the shaft and, terminating within such ring channel at a atl space from the periphery of the latter, said blade extending substantially tangentially to the walls of such bearing groove and ring channel to coperate with such Walls for providing a continuous substantially spiral path for the oil from said reservoir to the shaft.

3. A shaft bearing having, in cgn'nbinaW tion, an oil reservoir, a .carrier for taking a stream of oil from the oil reservoir and imparting a high velocity to the stream, and means for utilizing the momentum of the voilstream to force the oil into the bearing comprising provision for engaging and deiecting the rapidly flowing stream of oil from the carrier between the/shaft and bear- I ing,.substantially as described.

' a. A shaft bearing having, in combination, a vbearing member having a bearing surface for the shaft, an oil reservoir, a ring loosely mounted on the shaft to depend into the oil reservoir and'provided with a channel in its inner periphery, and a deflector comprising a progecting plate on the bearing extending into Athe ring channel in a direction opposite to the direction of vrotation of the shaft and having its free end extending toward but out of contact with'the bottom of the channel, substantially as described.

5. A. shaft bearing having, in combinagroove forming an open-mouthed recess extending between the bearing and shaft, an oilreservoir, an oil ring provided with a channel in its inner periphery loosely suppoted on the shaft and depending into the reservoir for taking oil from the reservoir .imparting a high velocity thereto, and a de Hector mounted on the bearing and extending into the ring channel for defiecting the oil lfrom the ring channel into the mouth of the. recess along a path substantially tangential to its former path, substantially siede scribed.

= e. A shaft'bearing having, in' cambias.;

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. 12H34 tion, a bearing member having' a peripheral u and the bearing, an oil reservoir, a ring having a ehennei in its inner periphery loosely supported on the top of the shaft to be frictioneily driven thereby and depending into the oi reservoinfgnd a curved deiector mounted on the bearing at the mouth of' the groove forming a substantially tangentiai continuation of the mentii of the groove and havin@I its free end extending into the ring channel substantially tangential to the ring, whereby when the shaft is rotated oil is coilec'ted in the channei of the ring and is led in a'rapdly iowing stream along thevdefectorinto the groove in a smooth inwardly Idirected curved path, substantially as described.

7. A device for lubricating a bearing having, in combination, an oil reservoir7 means for taking e stream ci oil fre-rn the cil reservoir' and imparting to it a high Veiecity, means for leading the high. velocity stream of yoil elong e smooth inwerdy-drected lcurved path to the bearing and fr deiivering it at a high velo-city to the bearing, and ineens at the bearlng for receiving the nigh its momentum or @is /uiva' inte a pressure et the bearing for forcing the eii inet een the surfaces to be lubricated so that ereedlubrication is lprovided for the bearing, substantielly as described.

In testimon whereof I aix my signa-ture in presence 0 tWo Witnesses.

OLIVER D. H. BENTLEY.

' Witnesses:

THoMAs'J. OCONNOR,

EDWIN C. KNAW.-

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